Senior Platform Software Engineer (Streaming and Event-Driven Platforms)

Location: Palermo, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina; hybrid with 3 days per week onsite

Company

hirify.global provides hirify.global Experience Cloud, a SaaS platform for managing experiences, insights, and actions across customer, employee, patient, candidate, and resident journeys.

What you will do

• Operate and maintain Kafka, Flink, Debezium, and Apicurio platforms in production.
• Manage Kafka brokers, partitions, replication, ISR health, consumer groups, upgrades, recovery, and lag mitigation.
• Operate Flink runtimes and jobs, including checkpoints, savepoints, state management, scaling, and recovery.
• Manage Debezium connector lifecycles, offsets, snapshots, failures, and schema changes, while supporting schema evolution through Apicurio Registry.
• Lead production incident triage, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, architecture reviews, and reliability improvements.
• Build automation, observability, alerts, documentation, operational playbooks, and participate in a periodic 24/7 on-call rotation.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience in software, systems, platform, DevOps, or reliability engineering, including 3 years operating distributed platforms in production.
• Hands-on experience configuring, scaling, and operating production Apache Kafka clusters, including partition reassignment, replication, ISR, consumer group rebalances, and consumer lag mitigation.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving distributed-systems incidents involving network partitions, data loss, service degradation, or high latency.
• Experience designing or implementing high-availability and fault-tolerance mechanisms.
• Professional working English proficiency, spoken and written.
• Experience with Java, Go, Python, or a similar programming language, plus formal architecture reviews and system design documentation.

Nice to have

• Production experience with Apache Flink, Debezium, Kafka Connect, or a schema registry.
• Knowledge of Avro, JSON Schema, Protobuf, and schema compatibility practices.
• Experience operating streaming platforms on Kubernetes or cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with platform automation, observability, major upgrades, disaster recovery, and failure-mode validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on work on large-scale, business-critical streaming platforms.
• Participation in a periodic on-call rotation supporting production reliability and performance.
• Commitment to diversity and equal employment opportunity.